Perennial Hardiness Zone

Herbs & Medicinals

Herbs: Herbs, the useful plants, have been grown in kitchen gardens since the earliest times, and were among the precious cargo brought with the colonists on their journey to America.Edible Flowers: Ancient herbals and still-room books- the cookbooks of their age, and are filled with recipes using flowers. Salads were gathered from garden and field; violets, nasturtiums, pot marigolds, and clove gillyflowers (dianthus) lent welcome color and often piquant flavor. Flower butters, syrups, conserves and confections were relished as well, and flowers were pickled and stored in crocks, to be eaten in the dark days of winter.

An impressive biennial with great celery stalk stems arising the second year from leafy clumps and holding flower umbels a good 6" across. An age-old culinary and medicinal plant, it possesses a licorice flavor to all parts, the chopped leaves added to salads, stems candied, roots and seeds steeped for tea, and more. A true biennial that dies after setting seed, it adds an airy stature to flower gardens and attracts numerous beneficial insects and pollinators.